Video: Creating bulleted and numbered lists

When you need to create a list in your spreadsheet, Numbers provides preformatted bullet and numbering styles for creating a simple or ordered list. Let's use some existing text in the text box here, in our current listing sheet of our Milea Listing and Prospects spreadsheet. And when you have already got the text entered you can select the text first and create a bulleted or numbered list from there. So one click selects our text box. You can click again to get inside and now we are going to click-and-drag from our first point to the end of our third point and you'll even see where the hard returns were typed to create the separation between these points.

Numbers offers intuitive organization features, allowing users to focus more on analysis and presentation. In Numbers '09 Essential Training, David Rivers explores the important features of this spreadsheet application and introduces the new tools for formula development and charting. He walks through the new functionality of charts, tables, and templates, and shows how to make spreadsheets effective and eye-catching. Exercise files accompany the course.

Creating bulleted and numbered lists

When you need to create a list in your spreadsheet, Numbers providespreformatted bullet and numbering styles for creating a simple or ordered list.Let's use some existing text in the text box here, in our current listing sheetof our Milea Listing and Prospects spreadsheet. And when you have already gotthe text entered you can select the text first and create a bulleted ornumbered list from there. So one click selects our text box. You can clickagain to get inside and now we are going to click-and-drag from our first pointto the end of our third point and you'll even see where the hard returns weretyped to create the separation between these points.

Numbers is going to use those hard returns to create separate bullet ornumbered points. So with our text selected now we can access the TextInspector. Click the Inspector button, let's move it out of the way. So we cansee our text. And now we'll click the Bullets button of the Text Inspector. And here you'll see No Bullets have been turned on.But of course that can be changed by clicking the button. We can use TextBullets for example. When you choose Text Bullets automatically the defaultbullet appears. It's a black dot. But of course, you can choose other TextBullets by clicking the drop-down button. Maybe a star would look good.

We can change the color of those bullets as well, click the Color button and from theColors window let's just choose a nice bright orange here. Close the Colorswindow. You can see they really stand out.We can also change the Alignment and Size of those bullets. So if we want tomake them a little bit bigger, we can use the Up arrows. We could also changetheir Alignment. Right now, they are right beside our text. If we want to raisethem up a little bit we could. Now we can even adjust the space between ourbullet and the edge of our text box, as well as, the space between our bulletand our text. Let's bump these both up to 0.25 and you can see that's far too much.

So in that case, we might want to click the down arrow to set them back to zero. And click-and-drag inside the first box and we'll type in 0.1. You canadd your own value. Press the Tab key on your keyboard to move to the next field. We'll try 0.1 there as well and press Return. You can see that looks alittle bit better. So our points really stand on their own and those bullets stick out.Let's try a different type of bullet now. When we click the button that nowdisplays Text Bullets, we can choose Image Bullets. Notice now we have got aseries of images. We can choose from like checkboxes and pushpins. Let's moveup near the top and choose the gold sphere. That's kind of cool.

It's 3-dimensional. We can adjust Alignment and Size of that as well.Notice the Bullet Indent and Text Indent stay and that's fine. If you prefer tonumber of the items on your list, click the button now that displays ImageBullets and choose Numbers or Tiered Numbers. In this case we don't need TieredNumbers. Numbers will be fine. And now we can choose the Style. When we clickthe Style button you can see there is a number of numbering styles like RomanNumerals, for example. Let's select that one.

Again, we can choose Number Indent and Text Indent or I think we should just goback to that Image Bullet. It probably suits this particular list best. Let's close our Text Inspector. And now what's kind of cool is Numbers knows thatBullets have been turned on so we can click after the last item, right afterthe word features, and when we press Return on the keyboard, we get a brand newbullet if we needed to add an additional point. If you need to remove a bulletjust use your Delete key to backspace a couple of times back to the previousitem and that's where we started.

So whenever you need to list items or show order create a Bulleted or Numbered list.

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